Governance
Guide
This guide steers you through the maze to the charity-specific aspects of VAT so that you gain an overview of how VAT affects your charity.
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Guide
Charity Commission hosts a series of essential guides to help you manage your charity’s money and accounts. They include preparing charity accounts, setting a reserves policy, investments and more.
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Guide
HMRC produce specialist charity Tax, Gift Aid and VAT guidance to help your charity pay the right tax and claim the reliefs it’s entitled to.
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Guide
This guide explains the changes made to SORP 2015, and how small charities will be affected. SORP, a Statement of Recommended Practice, provides a comprehensive framework for charity accounting and reporting.
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Guide
The Charity Finance Group and partners have produced a Charity Fraud guide for small charities. It is based on good practice guidance from the Charity Commission, Fraud Advisory Panel and National Fraud Authority. Contact us for hard copies.
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Guide
This guide provides employers with helpful advice on taxation of their employees and volunteers. It covers a variety of topics including employee benefits and expenses, termination payments and national insurance contributions.
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Guide
This notice explains what a charity is, how VAT affects charities, how a charity’s income is treated for VAT purposes, and what VAT reliefs a charity can obtain on its purchases whether or not it is registered for VAT.
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Guide
This briefing paper aims to help trustees become more confident at making key decisions regarding their charities finances. It examines major sector trends and gives top tips for questions trustees should be askin
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Templates
This guide helps you to set out the financial operational framework for your charity
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Templates
The Charity Finance Group have created a range of practical, easy to use guides, tools and templates. These aim to support smaller groups and organisations to manage their finances effectively.
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Templates
Charity Commission have created a template to help company charities with an income of �500,000 or less prepare their trustees’ annual report and accruals accounts in accordance with Charities SORP FRS 102.
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Tools
Guides and templates for small charities that do not need to prepare accrual accounts. Particularly useful if your charity does not have the resources to employ the services of a professional accountant to prepare annual accounts.
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